Quotes About Affluence

We want to exert pressure on wealthy people.

There was a time in my life when I was independently wealthy.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.

People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.

Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.

I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

I'm rich, freakin' rich. It's crazy.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.

Money talks; there's no question about it.

Our lifestyle is not our private affair. We dare not allow each person to do what is right in his or her own eyes. The Gospel demands more of us: it is obligatory upon us to help one another hammer out the shape of Christian simplicity in the midst of modern affluence.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. "We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.